Show 4 Te LEE IN ODD AYS 1JA l ODD GORNJRS OF TI WORLD V M if y 7ib 1 S r I Undercoat A J r Vhnuwraplu Copyright > t Underwood d The extreme of formal courtesu Is practiced bu our Japanese cousins i W r Hebrews In Jerusalem greet each other vilh a warm embrace < 1 ag1S r rg f S 7A H 4 J e h9b t m a Greetings of an expansive German for an embarrassed American officer Talk about masculine superiority said tho globetrotter you ought to seo the way women greet a man guest In Japan Theres n nice fellow In Tokyo whom I used to know Ho was In San Francisco a tow years ago but ho went back to take up his fathers business Well I was Invited to his louse In Tokyo Say you ought to havo seen the way Mrs Furugawa saluted mel Sho was n sweet little creature not really pretty but gon tie amt dainty and allthat sort of thing Well sir sho wont down on her knees and crossed her hands on tho floor and bowed her head down to touch the matting I felt like a grinning Idol Furugnwa ought to havo told her not to or else ho ought to have given her warning so I might have gone down on my own knees hut ns It was Id no Idea what oho was going to do so there I stood llko a wooden image of a heathen god and she thinking all the time what beastly manners Americans have Youve no Idea what an Idiot it made mo feel What Im used to at homo Is having a sternly nggresslvo American woman deliberately glare at mo In a street car till I give her my seat I It was hard on you said the hostess with a twinkle In her eye I remember you of old at dancing school and how you used to hate oven that mild ordeal nays always halo bowing and scraping But girls seem to tako to it like ducks to water Alas not all of us put in a plump and jolly young matron while wo were In London last year I was presented to Queen Alexandra To tell the truth I really had supposed I knew how to mako a suitable curtsey but my friend Eileen Fanning who gave mo various points beforehand made me practice over and over while she criticised It all seemed too absurd for anything but really I assure you those rehearsals wcio all that saved me from dying of mortification on the floor of Buckingham palace It you fancy Its easy to make a very very low sweeping curtsey almost to tho very floor again and again nnd again gracefully retiring during dur-ing the process and not getting tripped up by the longest train you over had a chanco to wearwell Just try It yourself At least you did know what was expected of you and had tlmo to prepare for it said the traveler Its when you run up against some unexpected un-expected Hind of salutation that youre lost I saw a funny sight once on tho pier hero just as I was landing from ono of the HamburgAmerican boats Thoro was a big bearded Russian on board coming over to visit some relations or other and when he walked down tho gangplank there wero two young people waiting for him a pretty girl evidently Russian and a young fellow who wasnt Russian at all but spoko English need looked as If ho balled from tho state or Maine Well tho ono with trio beard fell upon tho pretty girl as if hod never seen anything BO good betoroI guessed ho was Unclo Nlklovltch or something of that sort Anti when he had kissed Olgn on both pink cheeks didnt he lust grab tho stiff shy Yankee fellow and kiss him too Yes sir first on one cheek and then on the other Just ns If hell been a waiting sweetheart That poor fellow from Aroostook county was crimson crim-son to his ears when Unclo Nlklovltch gavo him a parting bear Img and sot him free I suppose hod never In nil his life seen Russian men kiss each otherbut hell see more if ho marries the pretty girl as I guess he means to Hard on a New England man suggested a listener Why theyre so stolid they passed a law once that a man shouldnt kiss his own wife on a Sunday And ono man who had Just got home on Sundny from a long Journey broke tho ordinance and was hauled up in court for It Pact It was a good while ago though Frcchmcn kiss each other Ive seen them And Italians why youd think to see a couple of noblo Paleimltans fling themselves Into each oth end of ers arms that you were witnessing the some soulstirring drama whereas it only means nil right What in creation those mercurial people saved their feelings In a pie keep savedup to express great crisis I simply cant Imagine Tho plump matron giggled They say King Edward has the true British dlsllko of sentimental poses but when he goes over to Germany ncouslnlng among the royalties he remembers his own German ancestry anti he and the mighty Kaiser Wilhelm embrace like a couple of gushing school girls It must be a sight Speaking of kissing didnt you suppose everybody every-body know that n kiss on the stage of a theater Is Just a hollow show as little like the real thing as n painted treo Some friends of ours a little way out of town got up a very clever play last winter and had a professional coach and all that It was for a charity hospital Well Mrs Smith and her husband were both In the cast but Mrs Smiths best steno was with the hero her lover The play was a great success but poor Mrs Smith found a queer chill In tho nlr when the affair af-fair was talked over afterwards with some of the women on the board of directors at tho hospital hos-pital It was only later still and In a roundabout way that she found they thought her beautiful kiss was far too real to be proper And wasnt her husband mad when ho heard of the gossip Why you know tho stage effect Is the emptiest show As a matter of fact all that happened when his taco bent so close over hers was her own frantic whisper For heavens sake let mo straighten your wig Its sliding over one ear Did you over seo them rub noses In New Zealand Zea-land Thats tho limit Of course you dont often havo the chance for Its only the aboriginesthe Maoris that do It and now a good many of them arc civilized out of all their native picturesque ness Just as our American Indians etc Dut out In tho mountain district where you go to see the geysers and hot springs there are a few that keep up a queer mixture of store clothes and primitive manners Theres a native girl there who acts asa as-a guide through the geyser regionshes really quite well educated and upto date butdont you know how some coquettish French and German Ger-man girls deliberately keep up a foreign accent when they speak English because they know UH rather fetching Well this Maori girl will rub noses with you in the most demure fashion If you signify that youre Interested in anthropology anthropol-ogy or sociology or whatever head covers the subject It is really curious when you come to think of it how many ways the human creatures have of saying say-ing How dye do The traditional cowboy fash u U u u c1 N a l SEx wtiY The Maori greeting In New Zealand is to rub noses together rF a r 9I y r ffRF If a body meet a body Gamin through the rye If a body kiss a body Need a body cry Ion of firing a revolver Into tho air outside your door would seem to city dwellers as extraordinary as the Maori nose salute But as a rule we Amen cans have reduced the custom of salutation to Its barest and lowest terms cutting out pretty much all the fanciful formalities of other lands and indeed in-deed of earlier times In our own land Wo bolt Into shops tell the clerks what we want with no pretense of greeting them like human beings and then bolt out again In the same timesaving but mannerless style which makes any wellbred Frenchman wonder and think things about us At least he wonders for a few days then he catches the microbe At first when he enters an American elevator he says to tho boy Good morning Will you be so kind as to take me to the eleventh foot Thank you But tho next week ho knows his lesson He too bolts In and merely grunts Leven Ho Is Americanized u 6 |